Definition of Injury

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Injury

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.

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Injury Quotations

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

Injury Translations

injury in Afrikaans is wond
injury in Dutch is wond, verwonding, blessure, kwetsuur
injury in Italian is ferita
injury in Latin is malum, iniuria
injury in Norwegian is skade, krenkelse
injury in Portuguese is ferida, ferimento

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